punk

Who knew that music was such an academically distinguished field?

An Air Canada commercial flight was delayed on the runway for 20 minutes, so gypsy punk band Lemon Bucket Orkestra did what any band with time to kill and instruments on hand would do: play an impromptu four-song set. No word on whether they were rewarded with an extra bag of complimentary peanuts.

SORRY MA, I CAN'T GO TO CHURCH TODAY TOO BUSY SLAYING THE CAT FOR THE GLORY OF TOM DELONGE

Things that I never knew were punk but now know thanks to this ad:

-Huey Lewis and the News -THAT GLAM HAIR -Eurythmics -Californian surfer-dude idioms like "dude" and "man" -Karma Chameleon -My Sharona -THAT GLAM HAIR

In all fairness, punk can't really compete based on the guitar parts alone. You have to have at LEAST one verse consisting of a guy screaming unintelligibly about anarchy or bollocks or how he's not going to clean his room like his mother told him to.

It's getting to be that time when Black Flag fans are either parents or dead.

This hairdo isn't so much "Riot Grrrl" as it is "Riot HELL NAW Grrrl" Z-snaps.

Pardon my ignorance, but despite being well versed in pop music, I cannot identify which late '90s So-Cal crossover punk rocker this is. Perhaps it's my fault, perhaps it's the obscurity of the rock star's fault, or perhaps it's the fault of an ugly, ugly tattoo.

Not that it isn't great to hear Dave Grohl's astute observations on fatherhood and the music industry's piracy crackdown, but it would be nice to hear more about the drug-fueled hedonistic rampage of a life that we all know he REALLY leads.

I can't tell if that's a condescending smirk or a pained grimace. Either way, this is totally how Green Day and Blink 182 will be remembered: not as the bands who turned punk into pop, but who were punk. Sorry, 1977!

Not sure if trolling or trying to keep the gullible away from the punk scene. Maybe it's both.

Or maybe it's just ironic.